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I didn't suggest a price in the original post.  The requriements were no 
moving parts, user licensing and support for OSPF.   Two of the requirements 
are easy the third seems to be a kicker.  I'd hoped to get a device in the 
$500 range.

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 04:09 pm, Vincent Fox wrote:
> > > I know I'll draw flames bit I tend to see two mindsets in this list
> > > group.
> > >
> > > The first one is those who want to reinvent the wheel to learn the
> > > internals. The others are those who value their money far more than
> > > their time.
>
> Hmm, the original posts seemed to have lots of requirements that
> tend to conflict. Like asking if any sub-$100 appliances could
> support a business and run VPN and OSPF and all kinds of others
> goodies.
>
> I think you are taking the wrong thing out of this discussion.
> The short answer is there isn't such an appliance. To expect
> D-Link or Netgear to supply a product that does all this and
> is that cheap would put Cisco out of business in a hurry.
>
> So you boil down to people suggesting either expen$ive commercial solutions
> or those who roll their own to keep it on the cheap(ish) side. If you
> value your time more than your money, you will end up dropping a few
> thousand at the very least on hardware and support contracts. I'm not
> sure if anyone's mentioned it but in that vein you have some open
> source-based solutions like the WatchGuard "Firebox" products that
> should fill the bill of spend money get results. Can anyone speak to
> the quality of these products?
>
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